First U.S. edition, 261 pages
English language
Published Jan. 2, 1979 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
The Fountains of Paradise
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In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometers high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.
Subjects
- Mountains -- Religious aspects -- Fiction
- Elevators -- Design and construction -- Fiction
- Monks -- Fiction